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PS21 Update – Week Ending Friday 1st May

On Wednesday, 29 April, we simultaneously held two great events in London and Washington DC:

In London we had a broad and engaging discussion about the unfolding events in the Middle East, the declining role of the West and how various players should engage going forward. The panel of speakers included Metsa Rahimi, Regional head of Intelligence at Deutsche Bank, Joseph Walker-Cousins, former head of the British Embassy Office in Benghazi now with KBR, as well as Alia Brahimi, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Go to our website for the DC and London UK Election Discussions: Key Takeaways and Media

With an outstanding panel in DC, we discussed the significance (or lack thereof) of the UK Election. Former EU Official Sir Michael Leigh chaired the discussion with Scheherazade Rehman from George Washington University, Peter Foster from The Daily Telegraph and Dan Roberts from The Guardianon the panel. Go to our website for the DC and London UK Election Discussions: Key Takeaways and Media.

Here are our upcoming events for May:

May 13: London event on the UK Election – What We’ve Learned with Frank Spring, US political strategist, independent consultant for innovation, politics and security issues and PS21 Global Fellow, Michael Peacock: Europe Middle East and Africa Politics and Economics Editor, Thomson Reuters and Georgina Stubbs: Journalist, The Sun

May 18: London discussion on Social Media and Politics, with Tim Hardy from Beyond Clicktivism, Sandy Schumann at Oxford University, and Jonn Elledge from New Statesman/Citimetric

Below are the latest pieces posted on the PS21 website this week (or those of our partners):

Vassily Kashin, a PS21 global fellow and senior researcher at the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies gave us a perspective of What Russia really thinks on Ukraine